Hemiagenesis associated with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis.
A female patient with right sided nodular goitre who presented with thyrotoxic symptoms is described. She was diagnosed as a case of hemiagenesis of the left lobe of the thyroid gland with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis and treated with propranolol; she became euthyroid over eight weeks.
Marwaha
R K
RK
Medical Division, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences, Delhi.
Khanna
C M
CM
Gupta
R K
RK
Sharma
R
R
D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006980:Hyperthyroidism / Q000150:complications; D008875:Middle Aged; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013967:Thyroiditis, Autoimmune / Q000150:complications*; D013971:Thyrotoxicosis / Q000150:complications